Broadside Band - Dances
Populaires Francaises (not quite right - needs to be rearranged rather
heavily - see below)

Part 1

Verse 1, Part A (1 repeat of strain A)

1:

Lead up [a double]

2:

[Fall] down again [a double]

3:

[Lead up a double]

4:

[Fall back a double, face
your partner]

Verse 1, Part B (1st repeat of strain B)

"then they all turne
theire backes … towards one another"

1:

Go back to back by turning
halfway around [with a double]

"and then turne
themselfes as they were before, all their faces together"

2:

Reverse your turn to face
your partner again [with a double]

Verse 1, Part C (2nd repeat of strain B)

1-2:

The men circle their partner
[with 2 doubles, to the left]

Verse 1, Part D (3rd repeat of strain B)

1-2:

The men circle their partner
[with 2 doubles, to the right]

Chorus 1, Part A
(1st repeat of 2nd time through strain A)

1:

The first man and the last
woman slide/slip/double into the center to meet and stand right side to right
side

2:

They then turn half way
around so that they are standing left side to left side

3:

Next, they turn to stand
back to back

4:

And finally turn to face
each other again

Chorus 1, Part B
(1st repeat of 2nd set of strain B)

1-2:

The first man circles the
last woman [with 2 doubles, to the left]

Chorus 1, Part C
(2nd repeat of 2nd set of strain B)

1-2:

The first man circles the
last woman [with 2 doubles, to the right]

Chorus 1, Part D
(3rd repeat of 2nd set of strain B)

1-2:

[They return to their places
in two doubles.]

Chorus 1, Part E
(2nd repeat of 3rd time through strain A)

1:

The first woman and the last
man meet in the middle and stand right side to right side

2:

They turn half way to stand
left side to left side

3:

They turn back to back

4:

They turn to face again

Chorus 1, Part F
(1st repeat of 3rd set of strain B)

1-2:

The last man circles the
first woman [with 2 doubles, to the left]

Chorus 1, Part G
(2nd repeat of 3rd set of strain B)

1-2:

The last man circles the
first woman [with 2 doubles, to the right], and both return to their places
by the end of the music

Chorus 1, Part H
(3rd repeat of 3rd set of strain B)

1-2:

[They return to their places
in two doubles.]

Part 2

Verse 2, Part A

Because these instructions
are at the bottom of a page, and thus are blurred and only barely legible,
I'm not sure whether you actually do siding here, or the lead up and back
again … I'll err on the "match Playford" side of this

1-2:

Side [left to line up right
shoulders]

3-4:

Side [right to line up left
shoulders]

Verse 2, Part B

1:

Go back to back with your
partner [with a double]

2:

Turn in reverse to face your
partner again [with a double]

Verse 2, Part C

1-2:

The men circle their partner
[with 2 doubles, to the left]

Verse 2, Part D

1-2:

The men circle their partner
[with 2 doubles, to the right]

Chorus 2, Part A

1:

The last man and the first
woman meet in the center [with a double] and stand right side to right side

2:

They then turn half way
around so that they are standing left side to left side

3:

Next, they turn to stand
back to back

4:

And finally turn to face
each other again

Chorus 2, Part B

1-2:

The last man circles the
first woman [with 2 doubles, to the left]

Chorus 2, Part C

1-2:

The last man circles the
first woman [with 2 doubles, to the right], and both return to their places
by the end of the music

Chorus 2, Part D

1-2:

[They return to their places
in two doubles.]

Chorus 2, Part
E

1:

The first man and the last
woman meet in the middle and stand right side to right side

2:

They turn half way to stand
left side to left side

3:

They turn back to back

4:

They turn to face again

Chorus 2, Part
F

1-2:

The first man circles the
last woman [with 2 doubles, to the left]

Chorus 2, Part G

1-2:

The first man circles the
last woman [with 2 doubles, to the right]

Chorus 2, Part H

1-2:

[They return to their places
in two doubles.]

Part 3

Verse 3, Chorus
3

The instructions for part 3
are "Doe the same, as you did att first, over agayne", so just
repeat part 1 in total.

Note:

The dance instruction ends
with "and then leade of, and let others procede if they please",
which is an interesting contrast to the dances where the dancers are allowed
to continue the dance as long as they please …

Comparison to
the Playford version (The Spanish Jeepsie, 1st to
18th editions)

This is obviously a popular
dance, seeing as it managed to last through the first 18 (or 19, depending on
how you count the 3rd edition's A and B versions) editions, after which they
changed the naming convention.

Thus, it lasted from 1651 to
1728 roughly in the same form (I don't actually have facsimilies of every
edition, and while the on-line overview I use suggests that there's only one
basic version in Playford, that may or may not be true).

However, this is very
definitely a "version 0" of the dance - markedly similar,
especially in the verses, but varying slightly more in the chorus, where we
have only 2 people, instead of 2 couples, undertaking the action.

In addition, the basic
action of the chorus does not change, unlike the 1st edition Playford
version, where the central action of each chorus (after the selected couples
have met in the middle) changes each time, if only slightly.

Conclusion:

Definitely an ancestor of
the Playford version, this dance should work well to the music used for that
dance.